About Markel
Markel Redondo is a freelance photographer based in Bilbao, Spain. After spending two years freelancing in China he is now based in Bilbao. Recent clients include, Time Magazine, The Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro Magazine, New York Times, Monocle, Greenpeace, Wall Street Journal, Internatzionale, The Sunday Telegraph, UNESCO and The British Council.
He has taken part on the Asia-Europe Emerging Photography Forum, Kuala Lumpur, May 2009, was finalist at Photo España 2007 “Descubrimientos”, nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass in2010, 2009 and 2007 and took part in the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2007. He completed a BA and MA in Photojournalism from the University of Bolton and Dalian Image Art college (China).
About the project ‘Chinese Dream, a journey across Yangtze region’
In the cities of Chongqing, Yichang and Wuhan where the Yangtze River flows, people are caught in the middle of major transformations. These changes to their environment have left many displaced and disturbed. With the construction of The Three Gorges Dam, entire towns and cities have disappeared and new towns are emerging with no clear identity.
Trapped in the rush to be transformed and to modernize, faces express mixed feelings, between acceptance, bewilderment and curiosity. Moved, destroyed, polluted, “the river at the centre of the world” is portrayed here as an allegory of China’s metamorphosis, a country whose population is both actor and spectator.
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